Five-Part Invention: A Novel

The searing and haunting debut novel from PEN finalist and New York Times bestselling author Andrea J. Buchanan

Spanning five generations of women, Five-Part Invention wrestles with the question—if trauma echoes through generations, can love echo, too? Is the love we transmit enough to undo the trauma of the past that we unwittingly carry with us and often re-enact in the present?

When Lise, a pianist, suffers a nervous breakdown early in her marriage, her husband, in a warped act of protec...